[9fans] Fonts: PostScript 229 and 315 glyphes

2011-05-26 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Since I'm moving to the 1.0 release of kerTeX, there is one area that I need to tidy up: fonts. The support for utf-8/runes will have to be put (later) in the compilation, replacing the xord[] handling. This is the gestion of the input. In the meantime, the use of tcs(1) to convert to

Re: [9fans] Fonts: PostScript 229 and 315 glyphes

2011-05-26 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:29:05PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: There are two versions (see Redbook, E.5): standard (0229 glyphes) and extended (0315 glyphes). Certainly not 0229 in octal... Must be 229 different letters? signs? in total. -- Thierry Laronde tlaronde +AT+

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-15 Thread David Leimbach
Just tried this from the mercurial snapshot from last night. fontsrv appears to work but complains about fuse not being set up properly. Does this mean acme is not going to work? Should I be asking this on the plan9port mailing list? On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Russ Cox r...@swtch.com

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-15 Thread Russ Cox
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:01 PM, David Leimbachleim...@gmail.com wrote: Just tried this from the mercurial snapshot from last night. fontsrv appears to work but complains about fuse not being set up properly. Does this mean acme is not going to work? Should I be asking this on the plan9port

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-09 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:17:22 -0400 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: Which vera font? I just looked up http://google.gr/ in Firefox pasted the text into a terminal using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono don't see any missing letters. Nor do I if I set the font to Bitstream Vera Sans or

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-09 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 22:25:17 -0700 Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote: This conversation reminded me that I have been meaning to clean up a program I wrote a while back and integrate it into plan9port. It generates Plan 9 bitmap fonts on demand using the native window system fonts. Right now it

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-09 Thread Chad Brown
On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: ; hget http://google.gr/ !doctype htmlhtmlheadmeta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7 i'm pretty sure that ISO-8859-7 != utf-8. I guess that's server-side mucking about based on user-agent not reporting

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-09 Thread Federico G. Benavento
ie=utf-8 works fine On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chad Brownyand...@mit.edu wrote: On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: ; hget  http://google.gr/ !doctype htmlhtmlheadmeta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7 i'm pretty sure that ISO-8859-7 !=

[9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot. But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize that I have zero idea of how

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph Stewart
I can't help at all, but the first sentence made me shoot soda out my nose laughing. -joe On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Devon H. O'Delldevon.od...@gmail.com wrote: I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot.

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph Stewart
I think I'll start all of my work correspondence with this sentence. ;-). -joe On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Joseph Stewartjoseph.stew...@gmail.com wrote: I can't help at all, but the first sentence made me shoot soda out my nose laughing. -joe On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Devon H.

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Bakul Shah
But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jul 8, 2009, at 16:05, Josh Wood j...@utopian.net wrote: On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting). Fontforge is the way I know about,

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread erik quanstrom
Fontforge is the way I know about, also, and will give you a process something like drawing your font, or even modifying one of the handful of 'open-source' fonts, like Inconsolata. There is a ttf2subf program (http://mirtchovski.com/p9/freetype/) that will, I think, convert the Fontforge

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts would

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:15 PM, J. R. Maurojrm8...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 8, 2009, at 16:05, Josh Wood j...@utopian.net wrote: On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts would be great, info

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread erik quanstrom
The enlightened use ' and for all kinds of single and double quotes, because you can copy/paste them anywhere and everybody sees them properly. Also, few things in the world look worse than seeing a quote done ``like this'' in a monospace font. Pff, I'm not a heather, I'm a TeX user.

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM, erik quanstromquans...@coraid.com wrote: Speaking of that, is there a way to do the reverse, to get plan 9 Bigelow fonts that Linux can use? I'm sick of my browser not knowing that the character left of the 1 on my keyboard is an open-quote. maybe this is your

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: The enlightened use ' and for all kinds of single and double quotes, because you can copy/paste them anywhere and everybody sees them properly. Also, few things in the world look worse than seeing a quote done

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread erik quanstrom
Yes, but with all the work in Acme and Sam, I've become quite accustomed to having ` look nice. It just makes the browser look out of place. It's not just the tick either, I'd like the browser font to generally look the same. that's hard. i haven't found one yet that looks good in both a

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:51 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: Yes, but with all the work in Acme and Sam, I've become quite accustomed to having ` look nice. It just makes the browser look out of place. It's not just the tick either, I'd like the browser font to generally look the

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Russ Cox
This conversation reminded me that I have been meaning to clean up a program I wrote a while back and integrate it into plan9port. It generates Plan 9 bitmap fonts on demand using the native window system fonts. Right now it only works on OS X. I would gladly accept X11 support and OS X bug

[9fans] fonts for X11

2008-05-17 Thread lucio
I get, from /n/sources: tar: can't open ape/X11/fonts/encodings/large/big5.eten-0.enc.gz: 'big5.eten-0.enc.gz' permission denied tar: can't open ape/X11/fonts/encodings/large/big5hkscs-0.enc.gz: 'big5hkscs-0.enc.gz' permission denied tar: can't open

Re: [9fans] fonts for X11

2008-05-17 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
I believe that was the same problem I had. Compare it to /n/sources/ contrib/pietro/fgbX11.errors. On May 17, 2008, at 6:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get, from /n/sources: tar: can't open ape/X11/fonts/encodings/large/big5.eten-0.enc.gz: 'big5.eten-0.enc.gz' permission denied tar: